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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. FREIER AND MAYN ARD FREER, OF BLUE ERTH CITY, MIN N.

SNAP-HOOK.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 263,693, dated. September 5, 1882.

Appli cationfiled.l'une,1882. (N0 model.)

T0 all whom 4It may conoern:

Be it known that we, HAS. H. FREIER and 1\IAYNARD M. FREIER, of Blue Earh City, in the eounty of Faribault: and State 0f Minnesota-, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Snap-Hooks; and we (10 hereby declare that the following is a. fu]l, clear, and exaet description 0f the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to whieh it; appertains t0 make and use the same, reference being had to the aecompanying drawings, whieh forma a. part 0f this specifieation.

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a perspeetive view showing the device attached t0 a; strap, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view.

Gorresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like letters of referenee.

This invention relates t0 snap-hooks for harness and the like am]. il: consists in certain improvements in the construction of t-l1e same, whieh will be hereinafter more fully described, und part-icularly pointed 0ut in the claim.

In the drawings hereto annexed, A represents a suitable frame adapted 130 be attached to a harness-strap, and provided ab its front end with a ibrward;extendinghook, B, between flanges F of wl1iehthe spring-tongue C, forming the snap, is pivoted. Seid tongue G is made hollow or provided with a chamber, R, in whieh the spring S is placed, said spring being bent around the pivot-pin ]P its lower end or arm bearing against the base of hook B and its upper outer arm against the tongue U, whieh is hus foreed upward. By this con struction no partof the spring is exposed, and it; is thus W811 protected and 11011 lliable to in- J' y Having thus described 0ur invention, we claim and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent of the United States As an improvement in snap-hooks, the frame A, having hook B, in combination With the snap or tongue O, having recess er chamber R, and the flat spring S, bent around the pivot-pin P and fitted in said reeess, aus sei: forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as 1 our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in presence 0f two witnesses.

- CHARLES H. FREER.

MAYNARD M. FREIER. Witnesses:

GEORGE E. SMITH, H. J. NEAL. 

